Introduction To Google Cloud's Operations Suite

Cloud Trace provides visualization and analysis to understand request flow, service topology and latency issues in your app. Cloud Debugger ... Engineering ToolsIntroductionToGoogleCloud’sOperationsSuitebyrelayDecember10,20214minuteread Total 0 Shares 0 0 0 Youknowthetimewhenyouwanttoseehowyourclouddeploymentisbehavingorifsomethingisbrokeninproductionandyourusersmightbeimpacted.Youarescramblingbecausetherearetoomanytoolstolookthroughtofindandresolvetheissue.That’swhereGoogleCloud’soperationssuitecomesin. Clicktoenlarge Whatistheoperationssuite? GoogleCloud’soperationssuiteismadeupofproductstomonitor,troubleshootandoperateyourservicesatscale,enablingyourDevOps,SREs,orITOpsteamstoutilizetheGoogleSREbestpractices.Itoffersintegratedcapabilitiesformonitoring,logging,andadvancedobservabilityservicesliketrace,debuggerandprofiler.Theend-to-endoperationssolutionincludesbuilt-intelemetry,out-of-boxdashboards,recommendations,alertsandmore: Capturingsignals Monitoringsystems Managingincidents Troubleshootingissues  WhatdoesCloudoperationsinclude? CloudLogging:FullymanagedandhighlyscalableservicethataggregateslogdatafromallyourinfrastructureandapplicationsacrossGoogleCloudintoasinglelocation.CloudLoggingcollectslogdatafromGoogleCloudservicesautomatically,andanycustomlogsource,suchasapplications,on-premsourcesorotherclouds,throughtheOpsAgent,opensourcefluentdoranAPI.Itprovidescompletecontroltodecidehowandwheretostorethelogs,includingkeepingthelogsinCloudLogging,exportingthemtoCloudStorage,orstreamingthelogsviaCloudPub/subtocustomthirdpartydestinations.TheCloudLoggingteamrecentlyintroducedthepreviewofLogAnalytics,whichmakeslogsautomaticallyavailableinBigQuerysoyoucangetdeeperinsightsandanalyzethedataalongsideotherbusinessdata.LogsExplorergivesyoupowerfulcapabilitiestofilterthelogs,convertthemtolog-basedmetricsformonitoring,alerting,analyzingandvisualizing. CloudMonitoringprovidesobservabilityacrossyourappsandinfrastructure,regardlessofwhereitis,GoogleCloud,on-premise,orinotherclouds.Itsupportsavarietyofmetricsintegrationsandallowsyoutodefinecustommetricsuniquetoyourusecasesandevensendthosemetricstoexternalsystems.Usingthemetricsexplorerandmonitoringquerylanguageyoucananalyzethesemetricsonthefly,identifycorrelationsandeasilyaddthecorrespondingchartstoadashboard.Youcanuseout-of-boxorcustombuiltdashboardstogetaconsolidatedviewofthehealthofyourinfrastructure,service,orapplicationandeasilyspotanomalies.Butwecannotsitaroundalldaylookingatdashboards.CloudmonitoringprovidesAlerting,youcancreatepoliciestoalertonperformancemetrics,uptimechecksandservicelevelindicators. ApplicationPerformanceManagement(APM) ApplicationPerformanceManagement(APM)combinesmonitoringandtroubleshootingcapabilitiesofCloudLoggingandCloudMonitoringwithCloudTrace,CloudDebugger,andCloudProfiler,tohelpyoureducelatencyandcost,soyoucanrunmoreefficientapplications.  CloudTraceprovidesvisualizationandanalysistounderstandrequestflow,servicetopologyandlatencyissuesinyourapp.CloudDebuggerallowsyoutoinspectthestateofrunningapplicationsafterdeployment, withoutneedingtostoporslowitdown. CloudProfilercontinuallyanalyzesyourcode’sperformanceoneachservice,sothatyoucanimproveitsspeedandreduceyourcosts.Anditisdesignedtoruninproductionwitheffectivelynoperformanceimpact WhileTraceisusedtotrackrelationshipsandlatencybetweenservices,ProfilertracksthisacrosstheindividualfunctionsinyourcodebaseandDebuggerhelpsfindtherootcausefrommethodtothespecificproblematicpieceofcode. HowdoesCloudoperationswork? YoucanusethetoolsdirectlyinthecloudconsoleorviaAPIstoaccessthedatainyourIDE.CloudOperationstoolshelpReduceMeanTimetoRecover(MTTR)andoptimizeyourapplication’sperformance.  CloudLoggingautomaticallyingestsGoogleCloudauditandplatformlogssothatyoucangetstartedrightaway.Youcanalsoingestlogsandmetricsfromotherenvironmentsandon-premisesusingtheAPI.Youcanthenuse: LogViewertoview,queryandanalyzelogsCreatelogbasedmetricstosetupalertsCreatelogsinkstomanageretentionandsetuppolicies CloudMonitoringprovidesaviewofallsystemmetricscreatedbyGoogleCloudservices,whichareavailableatnocost.CloudMonitoringalsointegrateswithavarietyofthirdpartyprovidersfornonGoogleCloudmonitoringservices.Custommetricscanalsobeingestedfromapplicationsandnon-GoogleCloudsourcesviaagentsorAPI.Usingingestedmetrics,youcancreate: ChartsanddashboardsAlertsandnotificationsSLOMonitoringanduptimechecks  IfyouaretheGKEuser,youconfigureCloudOperationsforGKEandincludemanagedPrometheussupport.ThemetricsthataregeneratedbyservicesusingthePrometheusexpositionformatcanbeexportedfromtheclusterandmadevisibleasexternalmetricsinCloudMonitoring. Fromthesecurityperspective,allyourdataisencryptedatrestandintransit.Allyoursecurity-focusedauditlogsareautomaticallyavailableinCloudLoggingtellingyouwhodidwhat,whereandwhen.WithAccesstransparencylogsyoucanalwaysstayincompliancebecauseitcapturestheactionsGooglepersonneltakewhileofferingyousupport. InterestedingettingstartedwithCloudOperations?Checkoutthedocumentationhere.   Formore#GCPSketchnoteandsimilarcloudcontent,followmeontwitter @pvergadia andkeepaneyeouton thecloudgirl.dev By:PriyankaVergadia(DeveloperAdvocate,Google)Source:GoogleCloudBlog CloudLoggingCloudMonitoringCloudOperationsGoogleCloud Total 0 Shares Share 0 Tweet 0 Pinit 0 PreviousArticle AnthosMakesMulti-CloudEasierWithNewAPI,SupportForAzure NextArticle SAPFindsEightInTenUKConsumersWantBrandsToSupportLocalSuppliers RelatedPosts ReadMore SoftwareEngineering Tools DeployingToServerlessPlatformsWithGitHubActions JoinusonDecember16,2020,11amPT/2pmETtolearnmoreabout AutomatingCI/CDpipelineswith… January12,2021 ReadMore Design Engineering TrafficDirectorExplained! 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